Great Prince Zidan

As I started attending a course of modern Chinese at university, I realized I’d become addicted to the language itself. I wasn’t alone, though. To see people hastily grabbing chairs and plopping down into them, you’d think them starving students at the school cafeteria, but here were true lovers and admirers of their subject, enjoying it more than many other things in the world. It doesn’t mean we’ve lost interest in other languages – not at all – but we forget about them all when our ‘laoshi’ enters the auditorium speaking a beautiful, soft Chinese and starts teaching us in her own engaging and thought-provoking way. She’s so eager to make us love China that she spends her personal time on extra-classes – cultural lessons at which we learn about Chinese scenery, traditions, arts, history and literature. Last week we watched the Beijing opera performance. Librettos for such operas usually feature both tragic and comic elements, interspersed with singing, dancing, and poetic narration, to dramatize historical events and popular legends. However the one we had on the screen is called ‘The Revenge of Prince Zidan’, and it’s not based on a real event, it’s kind of a ‘Hamlet’ remake. Ideally, we all should have been very sad because almost every character was slaughtered (and some of them simply committed suicide) in the end, but, personally, I couldn’t help smiling. I wasn’t exulting. I heard others laughing, too. Talented actors and actresses had been playing their roles in a very fascinating, but ludicrous way: they’d been walking around with a sort of pompous humility and singing at the top of their voices. Before dying one of them, a little short guy with a gloriously full, thick beard, rolled around several times like a pellet – and only then, having straightened it carefully, he died. The main hero, Prince Zidan, impressed his public with brilliant speeches and wonderful gestures. So I liked the performance very much! The only trouble with it was that I could hardly understand what the people had been saying – but that only means I should be more diligent studying the Chinese language I love so much... :(

 

The last line needs to be either "I should be more diligent IN studying the Chinese language..." or "I should be more DILIGENTLY studying the Chinese language..."  "Diligent" is an adjective, and as such, it  cannot modify the verb form "to be studying"; that requires the adverbial form "diligently".

Learning Japanese

Many peoples in different parts of the world are learning Japanese -- and I'm one of them!

A few years ago, I watched a TV-"show" video called "Japania Erinin Kanssa" from a on the channel "Yle Teema". Then, a little bit over a year ago, I found a website of this show these videos and that I want would like to share with you. The link in here URL for this website is: https://www.erin.ne.jp/ . I personally find this website [to be?] very useful. 

And don't worry -- you DO NOT have to know Finnish to use this site! In fact, you can choose 8 eight different languages and use it to use as your main language on Erin's website: Japanese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, French or Indonesian.

Hopefully you can will also find this website [to be?] as useful as I have! :)

 

[The previous correction is quite good!... but given your advanced level, I thought I would give you one that was even a bit more precise! :-)]

Welcome, [the] Winter Frost!

Earlier this month the snow was falling in big wet flakes, melting as soon as it touched the earth... but now there is frost[,] and the snow is not turning [in]to slush. Snowflakes are whirling rapidly round and round in the air [and], chasing one another in white clouds along the trees. You will shiver, seeing minus twenty-four degrees Celsius on your outdoor thermometer, but you will be warm enough, stepping out into a dazzling fairytale [of] taking place on the frosty streets. Just imagine -- the white drifts [lay to] lying on the earth so quietly, in unstained air, that the world seems a silver-painted carnival, left to silence. Birches, oaks, maples, asps and other trees, attired in [the] gorgeous robes of hoarfrost, [got] keep warm under their clothes -- [and fell] gently falling asleep. And even though the wind grates and roars, [tries] trying to wake them [up] -- not being able to stand their softness and silence -- it cannot; for already they [had sunk] have sunk into a deep slumber [and] from which they will not [wake up] awaken [till] until March. If at any time you wish to have a snowstorm [to break out] cascade down upon you, just pass your mitten across [the] a branch overhead… and – I promise you! – if you [also] have some warm clothes on [you], you will be sparkling with a smile and snow all over your face [and], as bright and beautiful as any sparkling winter day [every year is].

Drinking epilepsy

Yesterday I had not really nice situation, After leaving the mall I went to the bus stop, when I heard a scream. I turned around and saw the a man who was laying lying in the parking lot. He had convulsions and from his mouth came on an alcoholic liquid (next to him was the bottle) and blood. Lady with dog called the ambulance, and three men took a drunk to the safe place. It's probably stupid, but when this man lay i was thinking what I will do if he stop breathing. I gathered to vomit when I saw him, but I know that he is human and he deserve for first aid like everyone. I feel guilty now. Thats why I must buy a mask with mouthpiece to provide first aid. And what about a man? He got up and finished the drink before the ambulance arrived...

 

Alcoholic seizure

"I turned around and saw a man lying in the parking lot." The verbs "to lay" and "to lie" are tricky -- even for native English speakers -- but useful to distinguish.  Also "who was" should be omitted because it adds nothing to the meaning.  No need to correct the rest because Brooke and azzipog each did a very good job!  Very nice writing! :)

Hi Maria! -- I wanted to answer your question, but -- alas and alack! -- I see I'm too late!!! :( Worse yet, the answer you chose as "Best Answer", might, in fact, NOT be the "Right Answer"!!! !0_0! What all your correspondents fail to recognize is that the three possible answers don't just differ in tone... they differ in meaning! Let me start with what I see as the "least rude"... and work my way up to the "most rude!" 1. "No, you mustn't!" -- This answer implies that a bad consequence will occur if you perform the deed... so you're being told that there are "objective reasons" why you should not do it! 2. "No, you can't!" -- "Can't" implies "ability", rather than "permission"... so once again you're being told that "objective circumstances" militate against your performing the action! 3. "No, you may not!" -- This is the RUDE one! It means that I am NOT giving you PERMISSION... BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO! My reasons are my own!... they're none of your business... and if you don't like it, TOO BAD!!! !0_0!

"A famous scientist 'offered to use' a model of learning..." ?!?!? Do you mean that the scientist previously 'invented' a model of learning that is now being used by teachers, previously 'invented' a model of learning that was used by teachers for a number of years, but has since been superceded by newer methods, or 'decided to use' a model of learning in his own classroom that had previously been invented by someone else? Please explain what you mean by 'offered to use'... as your meaning here is not clear!... and I will try to improve on the previous answer! :)

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

I am learning English, because A want visit other country! And I also study other language, because I am interesting it!

 

I am learning English because I want to visit other countries!  I also study other languages because I am interested in them! :)  [or: I also study another language because I am interested in it!]